Labour Market Trends and Outlooks for Regulated Professions in Ontario

The labour market for professional degree graduates in fields with a narrow range of employment opportunities related to the field of study, as is the case in health and education, are tightly linked to the ratio of available graduates in professional programs to the number of employment opportunities in the profession. [...] In the case of both health and education, government has significant influence over both the supply (number of funded seats in professional programs) and the demand (employment in the profession). [...] Those interested in a detailed examination of a particular profession can see the following chapters, each of which provides greater detail about the professions, including: the regulatory framework for licensure, focusing on education and experience requirements the trends in new supply based on the number of graduates from Ontario programs and inter- provincial and international migration pr [...] Enrolment in graduate programs has grown faster than at the bachelor’s level, increasing the proportion of graduate students from 13% to 15% of total enrolments.4 The “double cohort” of graduating high school students in 2003, which resulted from the elimination of Grade 13, as well as the poor labour market conditions following the 2009 recession, are the main contributing factors to the rise in [...] The number of architecture students grew at an average annual rate of 2.2% in Ontario, while the number fell in the rest of the country.